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Book Review: The Eyes of the City by Richard Sandler

“These pictures are in part screaming at us to wake up and open our eyes to what’s happening … Richard is just putting it all down, making a record, exploring his own loneliness and mortality, compelled to document as a way to say he’s alive, while pointing with equal wonder at beauty and horror …”
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Book Review: Border: a journey along the edges of Russia by Maria Gruzdeva

Until most recently, my interest in Russia was rather limited. There are the writers that I adore – Dostoyevsky, Tolstoi, Chekhov and Gogol – and there are thrillers like Gorky Park that I’m fond of. And then, on short trips to Latvia and Estonia, countries with a high percentage of Russians, I became somewhat curious
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Book Review: Right Place Right Time by Robert Rutöd

Being at the right place at the right time is usually associated with happiness and success. But what happens when we are at the right place at the wrong time? Do we even know that this is the right place? And what if it turns out that it is the wrong place after all, but
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Book Review: Abandoned America: Dismantling the Dream by Matthew Christopher

If the creation of a structure represents the values and ideals of a time, so too does its subsequent abandonment and eventual destruction. In Abandoned America: Dismantling the Dream, photographer Matthew Christopher continues his tour of the quiet catastrophes dotting American cities, examining the losses and failures that led these ruins to become forsaken by
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Book Review: Out of the Ordinary: A Journey Through Everyday Scotland | Vol. 1 by Iain Sarjeant

Book Introduction by Iain Sarjeant: Much of my photography is spontaneous in nature – I enjoy wandering, exploring, discovering, observing – often in everyday places. It’s a way of working that I find very fulfilling – just drifting and seeing what is round the next corner. Out Of The Ordinary has developed from this approach,
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Book Review: MTWTFSS by Sophie Harris-Taylor

‘MTWTFSS: Chapter 1. 2010-2015’ is a vulnerable, honest and intimate photo book by the emerging photographer Sophie Harris-Taylor whose autobiographical body of work is made of images taken from her photographic diary of the past five years. The book is laid out in a traditional journal form, much like a decent sized Moleskin notebook, complete
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Book Review: Festivals Are Good by Cheryl Dunn

As a lifelong music fan I have always appreciated festivals. However, they are not for me. I used to go to Ozzfest every year in my late teens and early – mid twenties and festivals for me ran their course. Flash forward almost twenty years later and the festival scene is even bigger than ever.
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Book Review: Elegy From The Edge Of A Continent by Austin Granger

Elegy From The Edge Of A Continent is filled with dramatic images and writing based on the landscape to be found in Point Reyes, California. The area’s scenic bays, ridges, inlets, seascapes, and even our domestic detritus, prove to be beautiful subjects for Austin Granger’s camera. This book is broken into two parts: the first
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Book Review: Afghanistan Between Hope and Fear by Paula Bronstein

I’ve often wondered whether photographs from conflict zones really make a difference. There are of course the ones that have become icons such as Nick Ut’s photo of Kim Phuc – and been attributed a significance that back then they probably did not have. Well, who knows? What we do however know is that the
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Book review: Conventional Wisdom by Arthur Drooker

In his introduction to the book, Arthur Drooker writes: “After immersing myself for more than a year in these wildly diverse gatherings, I emerged with some unconventional wisdom: While Americans like to promote themselves as rugged individualists, they’re happiest when amongst their own and accepted for who they really are. Nowhere is this wisdom more
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